Play Thomas Dolby Radio
Thomas Dolby
779,229 plays (133,239 listeners)
Thomas Dolby is one of the great legends of electronic music. His career as a solo artist includes two of the most unique and recognizable hits of the genre, 
She Blinded Me With Science and Hyperactive!.
Dolby promoted himself as a kind of mad scientist, an egghead that had successfully harnessed the power of synthesizers and samplers, using them to make catchy pop and electro-funk. Before he launched his solo career, Dolby had already notched up a mouth-watering catalogue of cred as a studio musician, technician, and songwriter; after starting out as a teenaged live sound man mixing The Fall, The Members and others using a PA he built himself, he formed the arty post-punk band Camera Club (also known as Bruce Woolley & the Camera Club) with Bruce Woolley, Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn and Matthew Seligman. Within a year, he had left the group and joined Lene Lovich’s backing band and gave her his songNew Toy, which became a British hit in 1981. That same year, he released his first solo single, Urges, on the English independent label Armageddon. By the autumn, he had signed with Parlophone and released Europa And The Pirate Twins, which nearly cracked the UK Top 40.
Dolby started playing synthesizer on sessions for other artists in 1982. That year, he played keyboards on def leppard’s Pyromania and joan armatrading’s Walk Under Ladders. His most distinctive session credit is that keyboard line after the chorus on foreigner’s Waiting For A Girl Like You.
She Blinded Me With Science and Hyperactive!.Dolby promoted himself as a kind of mad scientist, an egghead that had successfully harnessed the power of synthesizers and samplers, using them to make catchy pop and electro-funk. Before he launched his solo career, Dolby had already notched up a mouth-watering catalogue of cred as a studio musician, technician, and songwriter; after starting out as a teenaged live sound man mixing The Fall, The Members and others using a PA he built himself, he formed the arty post-punk band Camera Club (also known as Bruce Woolley & the Camera Club) with Bruce Woolley, Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn and Matthew Seligman. Within a year, he had left the group and joined Lene Lovich’s backing band and gave her his song
New Toy, which became a British hit in 1981. That same year, he released his first solo single, Urges, on the English independent label Armageddon. By the autumn, he had signed with Parlophone and released Europa And The Pirate Twins, which nearly cracked the UK Top 40.Dolby started playing synthesizer on sessions for other artists in 1982. That year, he played keyboards on def leppard’s Pyromania and joan armatrading’s Walk Under Ladders. His most distinctive session credit is that keyboard line after the chorus on foreigner’s Waiting For A Girl Like You.
Top Albums
-
The Golden Age of Wireless
Thomas Dolby Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $7.99
- 7digital $6.99
- iTunes $11.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon $8.61
- eBay Search
-
The Best of Thomas Dolby: Retrospectacle
Thomas Dolby Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon $3.97
- eBay Search
-
Aliens Ate My Buick
Thomas Dolby Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes $6.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon $24.99
- eBay Search
-
The Flat Earth
Thomas Dolby Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $6.93
- 7digital $7.77
- iTunes $6.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon $12.98
- eBay Search
Top Tracks
| 1 |
|
She Blinded Me With Science
full track
|
|||
| 2 |
|
Hyperactive!
full track
|
|||
| 3 |
|
Europa And The Pirate Twins
full track
|
|||
| 4 |
|
One Of Our Submarines
full track
|
|||
| 5 |
|
I Scare Myself
full track
|
|||
| 6 |
|
Hyperactive
full track
|
|||
| 7 |
|
Windpower
full track
|
|||
| 8 |
|
The Flat Earth
full track
|
|||
| 9 |
|
Radio Silence
full track
|
|||
| 10 |
|
Flying North
full track
|
|||
| 11 |
|
Airwaves
full track
|
|||
| 12 |
|
Screen Kiss
full track
|
|||
| 13 |
|
Budapest By Blimp
full track
|
|||
| 14 |
|
I Love You Goodbye
full track
|
|||
| 15 |
|
Close But No Cigar
full track
|
Shoutbox
-
Timebender wrote:
Such a shame he's only well-known for 'She Blinded Me With Science'. Acch.
-
papoj1 wrote:
Blinded me...with SCIENCE!
-
monobobo wrote:
Your ruby lips? Peh. Your perfect figure? bleh. Just want the key to your ferrari
-
shortbutfast wrote:
geeky cool
-
valoftheangels wrote:
hey out there ! she blinded me with science was my song back in the day. great artist, great scientist, great inventor. thanks for all u do.
-
Feuerbach_ wrote:
New-Wave-Musik? Keinesfalls. Viel zu besonders, sehr klug, sehr atmosphärisch, abwechslungsreich und gut. Fern einer modischen Anbiederung auch nach Jahren immer wieder hörenswert. - In Deutschland viel zu unbekannt. Ich empfehle das Album "Aliens Ate My Buick"!
-
Constipada wrote:
The Golden Age of Wireless , best album ever
-
welshmaidn wrote:
Usual outfit, big pith helmet Dr. Martens and silk pyjamas Said it was driving her round the bend Just sitting and waiting for the phone to ring She should have been back around half past ten Has anybody seen my friend?
-
VGoRiLLaZ wrote:
Europa and the Pirate Twins > She Blinded Me With Science.
-
TomAllbest wrote:
...for my life
-
dschr wrote:
The Flat Earth, one of my all time favourites (I scare myself, Screen Kiss). Don't like Hyperactive!. It doesn't fit into the album.
-
Sacrifise wrote:
GTA soundtrack.... <3
-
Mark-Bold wrote:
The New Wave-Rock Blockbuster "Flashback": http://www.lastfm.de/music/Mark+Bold
-
hearditfirst wrote:
Dolby and Partridge worked together on Europa & The Pirate Twins apparently. Dolby's "Flat Earth" is worth the petrol alone. How can a human write a song as tear-jerking as "Screen Kiss" and not be knighted?
-
mewsic156 wrote:
It reminds me to XTC
-
man-called-adam wrote:
This is the man who produced one of the greatest hip hop tunes! Whodini's "Magics Wand" Check that one too.
-
amueller1988 wrote:
you know james joyce, i like your voice, you know baudelaire, i like your hair, you know churchill, i know kill bill, you know tolstoy, i know playboy (Bonaparte)
-
MiaHodges wrote:
She blinded me with science!!!
-
arturstereo wrote:
hyperactive!
-
CDPETE01 wrote:
Thomas Dolby was not New Wave,Electronica or New Romantic at a push but never New Wave.
Videos
See more
Featured Tracks
|
|
Hyperactive full track | 5:21 |
|
|
She Blinded Me With Science full track | 4:51 |
|
|
Hyperactive! full track | 4:08 |
Events
-
Feb
28
THOMAS DOLBY & FRIENDS : Circumnavigating The Flat Earth
Union Chapel, Islington, London, United Kingdom
Add shout
| 10 attendees
Listeners
-
Katomusic
Top Listener
-
iainjh
Top Listener
-
cachet
Top Listener
-
zenwaves
Top Listener
-
Fidgital
Top Listener
-
haircutalex
Top Listener
Recent Activity
-
alanharsh, theedmenace, chrispearce1 and 97 other people added Thomas Dolby to their libraries. 9 hours ago
-
feefafo wrote about Thomas Dolby – The Golden Age of Wireless in My Top 50 Albums (which you're just DYING to hear about). last month
-
pjebsen wrote about Thomas Dolby – Aliens Ate My Buick in 15 CDs With Some Effect on My Life (Including Videos). February 2009
-
mkb218 wrote about Thomas Dolby – The Golden Age of Wireless in Hydrogen Economy FINAL. February 2009
-
firlephanz wrote about Thomas Dolby – The Golden Age of Wireless in (2008) KW 51 - Radio-Niederrhein Charts. December 2008
Related Journals
-
My Top 50 Albums (which you're just DYING to hear about)
by feefafo |
24 Oct 2009 | 2 comments
-
Could somebody please take the wheel at HMV? Anybody?
by FinSquandrago |
16 Oct 2009 | 1 comment
-
New wave
by hdsander |
1 Oct 2009 | 12 comments
Groups (36)
-
The Antiquated Notions of Mr Thomas Dolby
68 members
-
RETRO FRIDAYS
233 members
-
Extensive Musical Taste
29,046 members
-
Europeans Against The World
3,976 members
-
New Wave
3,299 members
